been written yesterday. Mr. Bradley, in an admirable introduction, has turned out what might be called the biography of the book" and he has re- vised and annotated the text in a highly intelligent manner. The fore- word, by Harold Laski, is the only inferior thing in the book-bad rhet- oric and bad writing. PRACTICAL ApPLICATIONS OF DE- MOCRACY, by George B. de Huszar (Harper). Mr. de Hllszar's thesis, which seems sound enough, is that de- mocracy, besides being a form of gov- ernment, is a way of participation not only in the governing process itself but on various levels of social and intellectual activity. Democracy, De T ocqueville held, flourishes best in a decentralized society; he looked upon the New England town meet- ing as both an indication and a guar- antee of the basIc health of the Amer- ican system. Mr. de Huszar, who knows centralization when he sees it and also knows that a return to the loose agrarian world of the eighteenth century is impossible, has outlined practical ways and means by which the average citizen, working w th small groups of other average citi- zens, can restore to our complex ur- ban society some of the benefits that were derived from the town meet- ing. His book is simple, well thought out, and, on the whole, makes excel- len t sense. THROUGH JAPANESE EYES, by Otto D. T olischus (Reynal & Hitchcock). A well-arranged compilation of Japan's political aims, from the speeches and writings of her leading statesmen and warriors. From the notorious Tanaka Memorial to the recent wily circumlocutions of Radio Tokio, every kind of argument- Nippon should rule the world because of the godlike char1cter of its people ( theocratic); Japanese are better suited to jungle overlordship because they have more sweat glands than white people (scientific )-is present- ed. As Mr. Tolischus points out in one of his clear-headed interpola- tions, the J aps are neither mysterious nor inscrutable, viewed in the light of their own ideology an-d within their own frame of reference. As the reader can see by a cursory glance at the dates of these speeches and arti- cles, the basic program for Japanese world hegemony was expressed years ago, but the Western world, pro- ceeding on the theory that contempt breeds familiarity, chose to ignore them or laugh them off, and it has 89 . " '" , , ". ':'.' ":', ,'..,yo, .. . ", ., ..,... ...... . ... ,':\.' ,'\: ,+' ' : , ': 1 : '1 { TAKE T E MEASURE of this great western market ;/ .: \\t\::"u, þ : "::.'::. ,', . " ð " " . ' .. ' . ... - : ' ",c;::' ,.' ->,. : . : . "'; .. '"", .- . þ .,., , : , ?>.:' '%:" ., ..,,', f ..,..Â. "t:\::" , " ,:? , Q ' :::':: , i ;;: ::", "": >, . ';:..' .'.^ .'.:..: 0;....' ' :;:,J;;. '-:' :,. '?-:. . \' : ' :f ,t,:tl ::f. ,I) +- , ..',', o : ":;,::):,:;J,,t;;. '.:" ';,í& , \, :,,:,:\)y: t "';. " . """,, \:J ',+ , /.:..':. .'..',: ,. +- ::) ' r:;::u,$' :'. ", "' ::::' :., ,....... .. ::,. ::::. ';; ; :: , ::' ,, . . :. ::- .';: . .' ,-4\:" .:f "= ..::...' 1ic: .,','.. : ç. , / " l \:0 ,,-t;\: 4Æ <<:.:: "'.:;- "\' ":':" d < & : ; t "r .. ....:.r ':..x, .< \. '.'.':.;.; .', . itf,":JIi' :', },- . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ '4 . , . , : , > .$ , ,,'t, ."':"'0. ..... , !j : =:::-:. . '". ) , ,, '::: -.- " . ":"'::: 1: .,; :':.:,:..::' +þ: :..., \" j:::.:.:.:. '>. ."" '. '-:." ..-..-.....__.....-.......- Business opportunities in California command the interest of bankers and other executives throughout the country. For here is the richest. most concentrated market in the West. It is a market served by this bank with branches in more than 300 cities and towns... in practi- cally every neighborhood shopping center. It is 1his statewide coverage which enables Bank of America to offer an intimate, on-the-spot repre- sentation of unusual value to executives plan- ning to develop their interests in California. Your inquiries will receive prompt attention RESOURCES OVER 4 BILLION DOLLARS Californicl s statewide bank 1Junk of Ànttrira NATIONAL I SITNGS ASSOCIATION Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Member Federal Reserve System Main Offices in the two reserve cities of California... San Francisco - Los Angeles